Rotate camera in Three.js with mouse
I have quite a few objects in my scene so rotating all of them could be a pain. So what is the most easy way to move camera around origin on mouse click and drag? This way all the lights, objects in the scene are in the same location, so the only thing changing is the camera. Three.js does not provide a way to rotate a camera around a point, or does it?
Thank you
Here's a project with a rotating camera. Looking through the source it seems to just move the camera position in a circle.
function onDocumentMouseMove( event ) {
event.preventDefault();
if ( isMouseDown ) {
theta = - ( ( event.clientX - onMouseDownPosition.x ) * 0.5 )
+ onMouseDownTheta;
phi = ( ( event.clientY - onMouseDownPosition.y ) * 0.5 )
+ onMouseDownPhi;
phi = Math.min( 180, Math.max( 0, phi ) );
camera.position.x = radious * Math.sin( theta * Math.PI / 360 )
* Math.cos( phi * Math.PI / 360 );
camera.position.y = radious * Math.sin( phi * Math.PI / 360 );
camera.position.z = radious * Math.cos( theta * Math.PI / 360 )
* Math.cos( phi * Math.PI / 360 );
camera.updateMatrix();
}
mouse3D = projector.unprojectVector(
new THREE.Vector3(
( event.clientX / renderer.domElement.width ) * 2 - 1,
- ( event.clientY / renderer.domElement.height ) * 2 + 1,
0.5
),
camera
);
ray.direction = mouse3D.subSelf( camera.position ).normalize();
interact();
render();
}
Here's another demo and in this one I think it just creates a new THREE.TrackballControls
object with the camera as a parameter, which is probably the better way to go.
controls = new THREE.TrackballControls( camera );
controls.target.set( 0, 0, 0 )
take a look at the following examples
http://threejs.org/examples/#misc_controls_orbit
http://threejs.org/examples/#misc_controls_trackball
there are other examples for different mouse controls, but both of these allow the camera to rotate around a point and zoom in and out with the mouse wheel, the main difference is OrbitControls enforces the camera up direction, and TrackballControls allows the camera to rotate upside-down.
All you have to do is include the controls in your html document
<script src="js/OrbitControls.js"></script>
and include this line in your source
controls = new THREE.OrbitControls( camera, renderer.domElement );